The world belongs to the energetic.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Every reform was once a private opinion.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.